For twenty episodes, we’ve been examining the architecture of a profession under strain, including its history, its blind spots, and the pressures it was never designed to hold. In this final episode, we step back from diagnosis and turn toward orientation. Not a to-do list, and not a call to fix what’s broken, but an invitation to understand where we’re standing, and what it means to be a stakeholder in what comes next.
We explore:
- The beauty of the boring: Why slow, rigorous data, like the PACT survey, matters more than outrage when systems lose touch with lived experience
- No-blame cultures: What aviation and nursing can teach us about designing systems that tolerate human error instead of punishing it.
- Internal architecture: How to hold professional dignity while working inside institutions that move slowly by design.
- The wire: Why staying present with complexity may be harder (and more generative) than choosing a side.
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